well said.
John Haigh
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of James Wright
> Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 12:33 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Impassioned Plea on Code Style
>
>
> These guys have enough to do. I feel bad mentioning what I consider a
> "real" problem. They could just join and compress all the
> lines and let
> everyone figure it out.
>
> There are a lot of annoying ways to code, but I see nothing wrong with
> theirs. I certainly don't waste time counting tabs and
> spaces when I'm
> coding unless I have nothing else to do; and if I had the
> time to do that
> with other peoples scripts I would be out looking for a life.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Fraser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, 23 August, 2000 10:49
> Subject: RE: Impassioned Plea on Code Style
>
>
> >
> > i did not want to add to this thread because it seems to be
> going nowhere,
> but it seems necessary to point out that it is only common sense and
> courtesy to other programmers to use CONSISTENT spacing.
> >
> > be that 4 spaces, 8 spaces, 2 spaces, 1 tab or whatever, choose your
> indentation and stick with it! -- and above all else, do not
> mix tabs and
> spaces!
> >
> > it is foolish to assume that one editor will treat tabs the same as
> another .. even the same editor on a different machine may treat tabs
> entirely different; everyone likes to have their tabs set to their own
> special widths and forcing them to change it to match yours
> is a good way to
> annoy people. (as this thread so plainly shows)
> >
> > -s.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Steven Fletcher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, 23. August 2000 06:00
> > > To: 'Joe Rhett'
> > > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > > Subject: RE: Impassioned Plea on Code Style
> > >
> > >
> > > FWIW, I agree. I use the rather wonderful TextPad when in
> > > Windows which give
> > > me the option to indent things on a per-doctype basis - I'm
> > > no expert on
> > > Unix editors in general but I'm pretty sure that they can do
> > > similar stuff
> > > too.
> > >
> > > I'm personally used to seeing things indented by 8*X columns,
> > > not (as is the
> > > case with some of the opensrs code) 8 and then 4 spaces.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Steven Fletcher
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > > > No... tab settings are specific to the editor. In the file,
> > > > it's just a tab.
> > > > 1 character. How it displays a preference of the user.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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